Gfted1 Posted December 18, 2015 Posted December 18, 2015 Move Over, Graphene: Borophene Could Be the Strongest Material Ever. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Gfted1 Posted December 22, 2015 Posted December 22, 2015 The Falcon Has Landed! Epic Views of SpaceX's Amazing Rocket Landing. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Wrath of Dagon Posted December 22, 2015 Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) RealClearScience - Top 10 Junk Science of 2015 As 2015 comes to a close, editors at science websites across the Internet look back at the year that was to bring you the best, presenting the stories that amazed, uplifted, and taught us something new. Here at RCS, we do something a little different. We bring you the worst. Science is a way of thinking, a logical and reasoned method to approach the world in which we live. As many people as there are who adopt this worldview, there are also those who shun it. These are their stories -- the worst junk science of 2015. Why is their #1 Junk science violation FOIA requests for scientists' e-mails? These are public employees, their records such as work e-mails are subject to FOIA, these are not "private" e-mails as the article claims. Edit: Especially as one of their "junk science" pages is the corruption of the scientific peer review process. I'm sure there were no e-mails involved in that. Edited December 22, 2015 by Wrath of Dagon "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
Gfted1 Posted December 23, 2015 Posted December 23, 2015 Boston Dynamics' Robo-Dogs Pulling a Sleigh Is a Terrifying Glimpse of Christmas Future :shudder: "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Raithe Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 The rediscovery of some of Tesla's drawings and sketches: HigherPerspectives - Nikola Tesla Drawings Found A recently discovered set of drawings by Nikola Tesla reveals an incredible multiplication "map" that contains all numbers in a simple system. The sketches were hidden in a small trunk with drawings and manuscripts for hand-held devices and free-energy systems. They had notes scrawled all over many of them. Abe Zucca, a Phoenix Artist and discoverer of the trunk, thinks they were made during his final years. Zucca made copies of the images and showed them to various mathematicians and thinkers. The most interesting was his map to multiplication. "This device allows us to see numbers as patterns, the formation of prime numbers, twin primes, Highly composite numbers, multiplication and division, as well as few other systems, I imagine, that are yet to be discovered." The diagram is intuitive and easy to use. It allows learners and students everywhere to see how numbers work together in a spiral with 12 positions. Tesla once said: "If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe." 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Gfted1 Posted January 6, 2016 Posted January 6, 2016 Scientists Build Tiny Microcannons That Fire Drug-Filled Nanobullets. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Enoch Posted January 7, 2016 Posted January 7, 2016 The Year in Weird New Frogs Clawed frogs are native to sub-Saharan Africa and are weird pretty much always: They’re these bizarre flat-looking frogs with eyes on top of their heads and big claws on their back legs. They also will give birth when injected with the urine of a pregnant human woman, which, like, what? What a weird freakin’ frog. Six new species of clawed frog were discovered this year, and they are extra weird because their DNA is polyploid. Humans, and most other animals, are diploid, meaning we snag half our DNA from one parent and half from the other. These frogs, for whatever reason, snagged the entire chunk of DNA from both parents, and some were even found to be the second or third generation to do that, meaning they have the complete sets of DNA from grandparents as well. Again: weird frog.
Raithe Posted January 12, 2016 Posted January 12, 2016 For the general engineering... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZwZnNe2HnM 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Nonek Posted January 13, 2016 Posted January 13, 2016 More information being released from the Rosetta mission by Dr Matt Taylor and his team: Firstly, in this particular case the "tail" of the comet stretching back millions of miles and emitted from the main body is formed of water ice crystals. Secondly, there was far more proto matter on the surface of the comet than expected, not the building blocks of life, but the building blocks of those building blocks if you will. These two finds raise interesting possibilities, that comets may well be the seeds of life for worlds, which is a nice change from what we see of heavenly bodies causing extinction events, A Shiva like entity if ever there was one. Was life on Earth sparked by such an impact? Quite an experience to live in misery isn't it? That's what it is to be married with children.I've seen things you people can't even imagine. Pearly Kings glittering on the Elephant and Castle, Morris Men dancing 'til the last light of midsummer. I watched Druid fires burning in the ruins of Stonehenge, and Yorkshiremen gurning for prizes. All these things will be lost in time, like alopecia on a skinhead. Time for tiffin. Tea for the teapot!
rjshae Posted January 15, 2016 Posted January 15, 2016 Here's some news about WFIRST, NASA's repurposed NSA 2.4m space telescope. Apparently it will include a coronograph for spotting nearby planets around stars. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
Gfted1 Posted January 20, 2016 Posted January 20, 2016 Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Gfted1 Posted February 4, 2016 Posted February 4, 2016 NASA's Next Big Telescope Takes Shape. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Agiel Posted February 5, 2016 Posted February 5, 2016 (edited) Practical fusion around the corner... for real this time? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600712/experimental-fusion-reactor-switched-on-in-germany/ With Lockheed Martin hot on their heels too: Edited February 5, 2016 by Agiel Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
rjshae Posted February 10, 2016 Posted February 10, 2016 This Football Helmet Crumples -- and that's Good. It's an interesting development for those in the U.S. concerned about CTE. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
Gfted1 Posted February 10, 2016 Posted February 10, 2016 Looks like they drew inspiration from the soft wall. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Gfted1 Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right. 7 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Elerond Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/us-house-tees-controversial-bill-nsf-research Researchers need to explain benefits of new scientific discoveries, before they get funds for research to find them. Seems reasonable .
kgambit Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 (edited) Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right. Simply too cool for words. Edited February 11, 2016 by kgambit
Gfted1 Posted February 11, 2016 Posted February 11, 2016 This Is What Gravitational Waves Sound Like. Direct link. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Cyseal Posted February 12, 2016 Posted February 12, 2016 Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right. Can someone explain simply how does the LIGO mechanism for detection work?
Gfted1 Posted February 25, 2016 Posted February 25, 2016 Fermilab Physicists Have Discovered a Possible New Tetraquark. 4 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Elerond Posted February 28, 2016 Posted February 28, 2016 Fermilab Physicists Have Discovered a Possible New Tetraquark. So instead of meson cannons we could have tetraquark cannons Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right. Can someone explain simply how does the LIGO mechanism for detection work? Here is a simplified explanation http://www.space.com/25445-how-ligo-lasers-hunt-gravitational-waves-infographic.html 1
Wrath of Dagon Posted March 19, 2016 Posted March 19, 2016 Something else to be terrified of: http://www.statnews.com/2015/11/12/gene-drive-bioterror-risk/ "Moral indignation is a standard strategy for endowing the idiot with dignity." Marshall McLuhan
Gfted1 Posted March 22, 2016 Posted March 22, 2016 First Ever Supernova 'Shock Breakout' Captured in Visible Light. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Gromnir Posted March 25, 2016 Posted March 25, 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/03/24/a-japanese-fleet-killed-333-whales-for-research/ one can only dream o' the countless scientific discoveries that will flow outta japan now that their research program has resumed. ... am suspecting that the discoveries will be limited to enhanced efficiency o' dispatching large, marine mammals... and perhaps a few curious culinary advances. am predicting an iron chef special/reunion with whale liver as the secret ingredient. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
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